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- Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
- An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.
- A young and charismatic leader takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe's 2018 presidential election.
- On 11 August 1999, most of Europe was engrossed in the total solar eclipse, which momentarily enveloped the Earth in darkness. But in Serbia, people were busy barricading themselves in their homes and shelters for fear of the dark. Filmmaker Natasa Urban returns to the eclipse as motif and metaphor in her paradoxically evocative and thoughtful film about her own upbringing during the war in the former Yugoslavia, to which she travels back in THE ECLIPSE to collect stories and anecdotes from her family and acquaintances. A cotton curtain in the wind on a spring day, a lush forest floor. The war is far away - or is it? Shot on analogue 16mm film with an artist's eye for how traces of the past remain deposited in the present - both physically and mentally - Urban creates a rich, existential work of imagery with a quiet, philosophical weight that is rare and precious. As when her father wanders the lush landscapes while you hear him reading from his journals about the wanderings he took while the war was still going on.
- The peace agreement between FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Government throws the country into chaos. What happens to a fragile peace in an unequal country if doing the 'wrong' thing may easily be justified as the only means of struggle?
- As the members of a group of suicide bombers in Syria wait for their turn to go on a final mission, this film lays bare the faith and doubt at the core of men who give their life for their cause.
- Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist, travels around the world in a quest to eliminate the use of genetically modified foods and seeds in her home country of India and other developing countries.
- A tip-off in 2014 gives a group of journalists access to silenced stories of abuse from indigenous Sámi women, men and children in Norway.
- A youth doc about young kids from the age of 5 working as cod tongue cutters in Northern Norway.
- Four young women, two from Norway, one each from Denmark and Sweden, on being overweight and beautiful. How to be comfortable and proud of your body, even though it doesn't fit into the norms dictated by the media.
- Todd talks to his sister Stella about his worries and the fear of leaving kindergarten to start school. But Stella is too little to understand his complicated words. In Todd's eyes she seems carefree, but she soon misses him when he is not in kindergarten anymore. She wants to understand what he is talking about.
- Friendship, trials, victories and loss - the world's biggest soccer tournament Norway Cup has a lot of challenges also outside the football pitch.
- Four inmates on maximum security have chosen to enter a three-week Jesuit silent retreat in prison. They are guided by two priests. The film slowly observes this paradoxical situation, while looking beyond the question of religious belief: How does ethical exercises, rituals and communal silence affect us? The setting evolves into a prism for gauging a portrait of the existential landscape of the convicted.
- A feel good film about depressions. About being able to do it all, but losing it in a severe anxiety attack. About controlling angst together with the family, and be able to laugh of it all, even the electro shocks.
- Greek Orthodox nuns visit the small village of Valldal to have a majestic monastery built. The mayor is excited, but the villagers' opinions are different.
- Berat tries to save Mamo by letting him move into his home. But Berat is no ordinary community worker. He's been a criminal and is trying to deal with it. In a police interrogation his past is used against him, and Mamo has to move out.
- At Schous Plass in Oslo a very diverse group of ping-pong players regularly meet to play and to hang out. Some of the players have liberal views on drugs. As the city government threatens to remove the tables, the community fights back.
- Thorvin and Tilde are the only second graders at their small seaside school. Their days are beatific, and everyone knows each other, plays together and helps one another-until the school shuts down. School by the Sea catches the rainbow of sadness and excitement, resistance and resilience, loss and growth, of a child adapting to change.
- 'Jenter' follows the Norwegian teenagers Iselin, Mahsa and their friends through 1 1/2 years of junior high.
- Helge was lured away from his studies at the teacher training college and drawn into the magical world of Kaizers Orchestra because he was the only one in class who could play the harmonium and accordion. He never dreamed of being a rock star, nor even really liked rock music - but he has lived the rock-n-roll life ever since.
- For an estimated population of 4 million, Lebanon boasts some 200,000 foreign domestic workers, contracted under a system of full custodianship that deprives them of basic rights. Implemented since the start of the civil war (1975), this system is borrowed from similar ones in the Gulf countries. It is predicated on a transaction whereby the worker is not providing a service, but is rather commodified as a product, with specialized agencies organizing their import under conditions not unlike modern-day outposts of slavery. Director Maher Abi Samra places his camera inside the offices of the El Raed agency with the full complicity of its owner Zein. Diligently, unobtrusively, he observes and probes.
- We were abducted my mother, father, sister and me. Then they killed my parents and separated me from my sister. I was five. Abuk tells us in a low voice. I stayed with one of the men who kidnapped us and took care of his goats. Slaves is about Abuk, nine, and Machiek, fifteen. Like thousands of other children they were taken from southern Sudan by government sponsored militia in Sudan and used as slaves. They were later liberated by the organization CEAWC (Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children) now in South Sudan headed by James Aguer. This took place before South Sudan was a nation of its own. Slaves is based on an interview made in 2003 and is the second film in a series of animated documentaries with and about children in difficult and dangerous situations.
- Host country Korea will face the world's best hockey nation Canada in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Ethnically Korean, but mentally North American hockey coach has four years to prevent national embarrassment.
- Khieu Samphan was, as head of state, the public face of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot. Facing Genocide is a close portrait of the man who made Pol Pot's terror regime possible.
- A documentary about renowned Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Being one of Norways most-read modern authors, and having written over 30 books of which seven have been made into movies, he visits old places that mean something to him. From his childhood to his older life, many stations in his life are called to and he shares some of his thoughts about them with the audience.
- One of six children today live in a war zone. This is a meeting with three of them, where they in simple terms describe their experiences of war and daily life. The film is set in Iraq, but could be set anywhere in the world.
- The first user-generated documentary ever made in Norway. A multi character film about how we relate to each other.
- Norwegian filmmaker Håvard Fossum travels the world to understand what censorship is, allowing the censors themselves to state their case.
- In 1999, Serbian military forces and Albanian guerrillas were fighting in Kosovo. Serbs and Albanians lived separate lives. As their country verged on war, a group of brave students decided to meet their opponents for the first time.
- A story of an incredible girl and her cancer battle. She was just 26 when she died. Diagnosis falls on her like a lightning from the sky just 7 weeks after she starts an exciting life in NYC. She is the precursor of the #sjekkdeg (checkyourself) campaign that has saved hundreds of women from cancer. Thea and her family are brave and strong people. This document is touching, difficult , inspiring, full of love, laugh, tears, hope and thoughts. But most of all it puts life and existance into a perspective. We should cherish every moment on this earth. All the love to Steen family.
- A documentary about the everyday lives of several youths from the Stockholm suburb of Hässelby, including a young man with ADHD and a music artist.
- A theater director wants to tell the story of her life. A Norwegian playwright decides to write it and a father agrees to talk about his years in prison and exile.
- For the 4000 inhabitants of the town of Myre, Christmas without a hunt of Santa Claus means no Christmas at all. A bunch of men manage to turn the village upside down on the 23rd of December, but there's a lot of elfs diverting the hunt.
- 15 year old Noah from Oslo is arrested and charged on four accounts of robbery of other children. He is moved away from his childhood friends to Bærum to start anew. The film follows three of 19 accused of these robberies in Oslo 2013.
- A sister and a brother and the fear of fornication.
- A series of interviews of people, whose lives, for better of for worse, has been shaped by the Norwegian inheritance law "Odelsrett".
- Two children play on an island, in an open coastal landscape. Their imagination is only limited by the horizon, which is endless. They have a game they love to play: to search under stones, on the beach, in the mud, and in the fields to look for dead animals. Once they collect enough animals, they bring them to a self-made graveyard. Here, the children bury them, decorate graves, sing songs and recite poems. The cadavers are like treasures to the children. They come alive again - they rise in the "Eternal Hunting Grounds". Their thoughts about the animal paradise are magical and real. The hunter also lives on the island; he kills the animals the children find. The children collect them and turn the hunters cruel actions into something good. One day the hunter shoots a heron. This bird is bigger and more beautiful than any other animal they have found. All of a sudden their game change.
- This is a personal story about three generations of lesbian women, seen through the eyes of the director Mette Aakerholm Gardell. We meet, among others, Martine, who wants people to think about her "there goes an ordinary masculine person.
- Apophenia is a satirical reflection on how we make representations.
- Do multi-party elections necessarily make a country democratic? What does it take to develop a democracy that actually represents the people?
- The last remaining all-male orchestra in Norway, Kampen Janitsjar, has an average age of 60, and is in desperate need of new members to keep their legacy alive. But with a lack of sufficient young male musicians, and quite a few women knocking at the membership door of this popular orchestra, the leaders are forced to take a long, hard look at the price of maintaining old traditions. MARCHING FOREVER is a funny and painfully honest film about friendship, gender roles, and the scariest thing of all: change.
- The documentaryfilm HUMAN study what's human - out of context. Without familiar purposes and surroundings, the film plays our labeling instinct against the factual meeting with another person. How close can we get to another human before it gets inhuman, - or maybe too human?
- A young boy experiencing his parents constantly quarreling finds his refuge at the river behind the house.